Chapter 5

For feminists, the most significant characteristic of all human communication is that people take each other and the context into account.

False

_____ refers to the difficulties in playing two or more contradictory roles.​

Role conflict

Each status is associated with one or more _____.​

Roles

Which of the following statements is common to all micro-level perspectives about social interaction?​

The perspectives explain how people interact in their daily lives.

According to the social exchange theory, any of a person's resources can be traded for more, better, or different resources that another person possesses.

True

According to the social exchange theory, relationships involve trading a variety of resources, such as money, youth, and good looks.

True

Identify a statement that is true about verbal interactions according to feminist theories.​

Women are more likely than men to do conversational maintenance work.

A _____ is a social position that a person attains through personal effort or assumes voluntarily.​

achieved status

A _____ is a social position that a person is born into.​

ascribed status

Cameron was scheduled to present his history paper on Thursday between 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm. His anthropology final was scheduled for 3:00 pm on the same day. He was stressed because of the different activities he had to perform as a student majoring in Humanities. Cameron is experiencing _____.​

role strain

The _____ proposes that individuals seek through their communication to maximize their rewards and minimize their costs.​

social exchange theory

Timothy and Kiley were asked to violate a norm by their sociology professor. They chose to go to the mall and use the up escalator to go down and the down escalator to go up. They watched the reactions of others and wrote a paper describing the experience. Which of the following methodological tools were Timothy and Kiley using?​

​Ethnomethodology

Which of the following is a similarity between statuses and roles?​

​Like statuses, roles are relational.

According to feminist theories, which of the following statements is true about verbal interactions?​

​Men show conversational dominance by speaking more frequently and for longer periods

Social interaction can be defined as the process by which:​

​a person acts toward and reacts to people around him or her.

In the context of symbolic interaction, _____ refers to a type of doublespeak that uses words or phrases that avoid a harsh, unpleasant, or distasteful reality.​

​euphemism

Social structure:​

​guides the actions of people.

Carter is a full-time college student and works at a factory for 30 hours each week. He feels exhausted and is having a hard time dealing with the demands of his roles at college and the factory he works in. Carter is experiencing _____.​

​role conflict

The _____ argues that people create and define their reality through social exchanges.​

​symbolic interaction theory

Which of the following a key characteristic of social interaction?​

People influence each other's behavior through social interaction